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Out of all smoking guns you selected... A space program for defense against icbm as an example of imperialism?

What?

You can criticize said program for being reckless and that it sets a new standard for how to launch impossible to destroy icbms but imperialism?

How is a planet wide constellation with offensive capabilities not imperialistic?

The USA has officially killed the Outer Space Treaty with that system. We really do live in interesting times.

By that logic how is an icbm not imperialism or airplanes that can fly across the world.

> In 2019, Donald Trump said the satellites would also carry offensive weapons.

Yes.

This man is going to single-handedly make it impossible for humans to ever reach space again.

Absolutely, and that is horrible.